In the entertainment industry we see a lot of remade movies and music covers of old songs, but we never see an old video game being remade, I have a few games that I love which are old and I think would be a lot of fun playing them again but in a new version using the most recent technologies available and I believe if done right they would sell again.
I have come up with a few games I personally would like to see remade, these are old quest/advanture games I played that have good story and beautiful scenary which would look amazing using modern technology, the games are:
Phantasmagoria, Sanitarium and Atlantis The Lost Tale, I will exaime what I think can be done with each game.
The percentage of gamers who have actually played these games is probably small, so probably not very profitable to remake them. The vast majority of gamers' earliest gaming experience is probably something like Mario 64. So the "old" games that are being remade would be something like Diablo, Doom,D&D games, Zelda etc.
Occasionally we'll get something like Bionic Commando, but thats significantly less obscure than the titles you mentioned.
Frankly, I think it was a miracle that a game like Fallout ever got remade - and actually gain mainstream accessibility - so perhaps it's not impossible.
Because the OT forum is much more active and I wanted to read comments, topics in OT forum disappear after a day but here it will stay in the first page much longer and possibly read by more people in the long run, if a mod decides to remove one of them I won't say anything.
I would really like to see a remake of Metal Gear Solid for the Playstation. Have more unreal missle/bullet dodging scenes and added content. They wouldnt even have to use any of the new consoles...just remake it for ohhhh...gamecube just for an example....maybe have another subtitle like "Snake Brothers" or "Two Snakes".
Originally posted by: ixelionFrankly, I think it was a miracle that a game like Fallout ever got remade - and actually gain mainstream accessibility - so perhaps it's not impossible.
Was Fallout actually remade, or was Fallout 3 a completely different game from Fallout 1 & 2 that merely shared the same name and theme? I've never played any of them, but I'm under the impression that Fallout 3 bore almost no resemblance to Fallout 1 and 2.
i want a xbox360/ps3 version of X-COM series: Mythos Games' X-COM: UFO Defense http://www.xcomufo.com/
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I would like to play a remake of Half Life 1, since it came out my freshman year in college, and I only had a computer that I built out of spare parts from friends and family (Which could not run it, plus I was broke so I couldn't afford the game anyway). I tried to play the game when I bought HL2, since it was included, but I just couldn't do it. The graphics were so bad and so cheesy, that it took so much away from the game. I hope that the Black Mesa Project does get done. I doubt it, but hope they finish up and stop making it more complicated than it needs to be.
I do find it funny that old 3D games are difficult to play for me, as they look so bad, but I have no problem playing any of the old sprite based games. I am suprised there aren't more sprite based games now, as it is relatively easy to make them look good.
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I disagree - I think old games shouldn't be remade. They should be left as they were. A sequel, sure that's fine, but to flat-out remake a game? I don't have any interest in playing the same game over again.
I disagree - I think old games shouldn't be remade. They should be left as they were. A sequel, sure that's fine, but to flat-out remake a game? I don't have any interest in playing the same game over again.
Give me an updated Freespace 2 instead of a failed Freespace 3 anytime, I'll be glad to replay "the same game over again". When you like something it doesn't matter to experience it "over again", it applies to many things in life outside of gaming as well, I could take literature for instance, and movies. There are some classics that shouldn't be touched, that's a certainty, but there's many old games that would end up still being top-notch quality products if they were simply "re-made" with the current technologies, rather than having that common fast-food consolitis-affected stuff we have since the past five years or so, sequels or not.
I would like to play a remake of Half Life 1, since it came out my freshman year in college, and I only had a computer that I built out of spare parts from friends and family (Which could not run it, plus I was broke so I couldn't afford the game anyway). I tried to play the game when I bought HL2, since it was included, but I just couldn't do it. The graphics were so bad and so cheesy, that it took so much away from the game. I hope that the Black Mesa Project does get done. I doubt it, but hope they finish up and stop making it more complicated than it needs to be.
I do find it funny that old 3D games are difficult to play for me, as they look so bad, but I have no problem playing any of the old sprite based games. I am suprised there aren't more sprite based games now, as it is relatively easy to make them look good.
There is an effort to remake HL1 in the source engine: Black Mesa: Source
The website is kinda dead, but the devs are still active on twitter.
Remakes? Depends on the game. Monkey Island was vary well done without taking anything away from the original.
I'm more interested in seeing old games recoded to work properly on new systems. Wanted to play Grim Fandango yesterday but it refused to run on Windows 7 64-bit.
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Given the way technology marches on, a 'remake' is inevitably going to have new elements. I don't know there's a distinction between 'remake' and 'sequel''. There are those iterative sports sims that just remake the same game every year with a different set of names., Medieval Total War 2 was kind of a remake of the first one, for example, the various Sim Cities and Civiliastions were sort of remakes. Didn't they remake Myst or Riven or something in 3d?
And there's a justification for remakes in the PC world - that people might not have played the earlier games in a 'franchise' but now they can't because they don't work on current technology. The first Resident Evil game, for example, I think was Glide-only on PC.
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The post you quote specifically refers to 'the black mesa project', which is what 'Black Mesa: Source' is now known as! Let's hope they finish this year.
I disagree - I think old games shouldn't be remade. They should be left as they were. A sequel, sure that's fine, but to flat-out remake a game? I don't have any interest in playing the same game over again.
I don't know. An old classic remade with current graphics would be pretty cool.
I'd love to see Soldier of Fortune 2 remade with current graphics, just leave everything else the same, maybe add a few more weapons or something like that.
I wouldn't mind a remake of the Ultima series.
I tried the Ultima V remake with Dungeon Siege graphics but I couldn't get into it.
Wouldn't mind a non-buggy Vampire sequel either.
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Old video games being remade
